Pennsylvania State Grant Academic Progress Policy

PHEAA, (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency), requires that both full-time and part-time grant recipients make academic progress. If a student does not meet the academic progress requirements, he or she will be ineligible for a PHEAA grant for their next term(s) of enrollment.

For each full-time PHEAA grant received, a student must complete 12 credits. If a student maintains full-time enrollment for the academic year, the requirement would be 24 credits with a minimum grade of "D" and no repeats of courses with a grade of "D" or better.

For each part-time PHEAA grant received, a student must complete 6 credits. If a student maintains part-time enrollment for the academic year, the requirement would be 12 credits with a minimum grade of "D" and no repeats of courses with a grade of "D" or better.

If a student received a full-time PHEAA grant for 1 semester and a part-time PHEAA grant for another, the requirement would be 18 credits with a minimum grade of "D" and no repeats of courses with a grade of "D" or better.

Students who lose their PHEAA grants due to lack of academic progress can regain their eligibility only by achieving the number of credits that they are deficient for progress during the next term(s) in which they are enrolled. Progress is checked each semester. Please note that CLEP tests do not count towards a deficiency.

Please note that students in fully online programs or who are taking greater than 50% online instruction are eligible only if accepted into the State Grant Distance Education Pilot Program and meet the normal PHEAA grant requirements. RMU will nominate eligible students for this pilot program but please note that funding for the pilot program is limited and acceptance into this program is not guaranteed.

For students taking eight week courses, you must be enrolled in both eight week sessions to be eligible for a state grant.